Dell Precision M6400 bcm57xx Ethernet finaly working

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SOME GREAT NEWS FOR M6400 USERS, I HAVE FINALY GOTTEN THE BROADCOM NIC WORKING.

 

1. make sure your dev id is 14e4 1680.

 

2. install attached kext with osx86 tools or whatever way you like and reboot.

 

3. you should now have the ethernet recognized but no internet and a MAC address of all 00's.

 

4. in windows look up your MAC address and copy it somewhere.

 

5. in leopard open a terminal and type: sudo ifconfig en0 (it maybe en1 or en2 or en etc.) ether 00:21:70:8A:70:E2 but replace 00:21:70:8A:70:E2 with your MAC address

 

6. your internet should now connect and be fully working.

 

you will need to do the command at every startup so just make a script and add it to startup items

 

I'm currently working on getting it to work in snow leopard and want to know if anyone has the sources for either bcm57xx kexts, that would be most helpful.

 

if you'd like to help out in the snow leo effort just let me know

AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip